The exile was only the beginning... - The memory places of West Azerbaijan right.az continues the series "The memory places of West Azerbaijan". We have already talked about 24 villages - Meshki and Abil-Kand to Kibrach and Kasman. Today we will talk about five more: Korcula, Leyli-Kakan, Alagoz, Sharala and Alaj. Let us remind you that the series is based on the book of a Ukrainian historian, who writes under the pseudonym Energy, "Disappeared Civilization - an imperceptible catastrophe" and its continuation - the project "Memorial Places of West Azerbaijan", a joint work of the author and the AZfront team. All five villages have the same general historical background, so we'll talk about it once. On May 29, 1918, the government of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic ceded Arivan, today's Yerevan, and some of its surrounding territories to the Armenians. Thus, on the land where the ancestors of Azerbaijanis historically lived, the first Republic of Armenia was created, which already in the first months of its existence, began to make territorial claims to Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey, then still the Ottoman Empire. In the years 1918-1920, the ruling Nationalist Party carried out ethnic cleansing of the Turkish population in Iron district and other areas. At the end of 1920 Soviet rule was announced in Armenia, and in 1921 it was finally established. In references, these events are supported by documents from the State Archives of the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Historical Archives of the Central State of Georgia, a memorandum that the representatives of Armenia officially presented to the Versailles Peace Conference on February 26, 1919, Richard Hovhannisyan's monograph "The Republic of Armenia", the British newspaper "The Great Newspaper of Armenia" and the British newspaper "The Soviet Gazette" and the British "Surgeman". encyclopedia. You can read more here.

The exile was only the beginning... - The memory places of West Azerbaijan right.az continues the series "The memory places of West Azerbaijan". We have already talked about 24 villages - Meshki and Abil-Kand to Kibrach and Kasman. Today we will talk about five more: Korcula, Leyli-Kakan, Alagoz, Sharala and Alaj. Let us remind you that the series is based on the book of a Ukrainian historian, who writes under the pseudonym Energy, "Disappeared Civilization - an imperceptible catastrophe" and its continuation - the project "Memorial Places of West Azerbaijan", a joint work of the author and the AZfront team. All five villages have the same general historical background, so we'll talk about it once. On May 29, 1918, the government of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic ceded Arivan, today's Yerevan, and some of its surrounding territories to the Armenians. Thus, on the land where the ancestors of Azerbaijanis historically lived, the first Republic of Armenia was created, which already in the first months of its existence, began to make territorial claims to Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey, then still the Ottoman Empire. In the years 1918-1920, the ruling Nationalist Party carried out ethnic cleansing of the Turkish population in Iron district and other areas. At the end of 1920 Soviet rule was announced in Armenia, and in 1921 it was finally established. In references, these events are supported by documents from the State Archives of the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Historical Archives of the Central State of Georgia, a memorandum that the representatives of Armenia officially presented to the Versailles Peace Conference on February 26, 1919, Richard Hovhannisyan's monograph "The Republic of Armenia", the British newspaper "The Great Newspaper of Armenia" and the British newspaper "The Soviet Gazette" and the British "Surgeman". encyclopedia. You can read more here.